Some of you may remember my post and layout of "Monkey Love". I scrapped my favorite stuffie from my childhood, still have him after all these years. That love of monkeys has been passed down to my daughter. I had a collection of photos thru the years of her and her friend, Zippet, that I scrapped this weekend. If you look closely, you can see Changito peeking out behind a couple photos. He's a real cutie-patootie!
I had two minutes to relax so I colored this image. Later in the day I found scraps to match and make a card . This morning I put it all together. So you could say it took me over 24 hours to make this card LOL!
It's crazy that I have these moments to create and my layouts are bagged and packed for my weekend crop!! I rooted through my photos and found a few to scrap. Above is a set of photos from when my now 13-year0old daughter was in Preschool. I found her class shot as well as an individual and had this cool frame to use on the page. A challenge on one of my groups caused me to doodle the stick figures in crayon on the sidebar to the left, as well as the info on the tag.
I hit the jackpot when I found these pics of my daughter when she took a pompom class at the early age of four! I had some scraps that went well with the patterned paper base. My doodling took the form of outlining the letters in the title, and bringing out the subtle flowers in the patterned paper with black glitter pen.
Although I worked tons of hours, and had lots of chores and errands to cover this week, I still managed to steal a few moments in my craft room again. I finished two single-page layouts, as well as the card above. I really had fun coloring the image, and using all my scraps up, including the sparkly, flowery flourishes.
This first card is a pull-out, kind of like a library card and pocket. It's a recipe card in that I'm in a swap that gives me the recipe designing the card. This recipe consisted of three flowers, two ribbons and a button. I used serendipity squares that I just made last weekend.
This 6x6 card was made for a challenge to create thank you cards for the people in your life. Too many times you don't tell people how much they mean to you until they're gone. I'm going to have to make a whole lot more cards than just this one!!! I am blessed with many friends.
This is about the last image I have left of QT Hooty Owl from Pink Cat Studios. Lucky for me I put an order in to buy my own set of these too cute owls! The design of this birthday card is like a library pocket, with the card pulling out of the top of the pocket, where you can write your own message to the birthday boy or girl. I used leftover two-sided paper to form the pocket and make the matching card. I colored my owl with Copics, adding a dash of copper Stickles to his beak, and Liquid Glass from CTMH to spice up the ballon and his wings.
I just received a book about making collage pages and all the different techniques you can use to make all or parts of a page. I'm still not done going through thebook. I found myself with a little time, had the makings of a layout all bagged, and decided to try my hand.
I just got some new Tilda images. This is CrossStitch Tilda. I started coloring her and then had to go hunting for the paper and embellishments. Luckily, I have a huge stash of...well, everything! The background paper was embossed and then I sanded lightly. The sentiment came from an old swap, the yellow gingham strip was leftover scraps from a previous project. The flower was a bonus, I found it on the bottom of one of my craft drawers! I love finding flowers and money when I least expect it, don't you?!
I just got an envie of stamped images from Holley on Scrapbook Place Yahoo Group. It was chock full of Ketto girls from Stamping Bella---love the Ketto girls. This one is called missmatch Ketto, although I didn't color her mismatched, I think she rocks this card. Thanks, Holley!
